LATimes.com – By Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
At the first transgender career expo, men and women meet companies that accept them for who they are becoming.
Atlanta – The woman pulled her resume from a pink file folder and handed it to a recruiter.
Across the top of the page, in bold type, she had printed her name twice: first as “Mark,” then as “(Meghan).” She was not quite sure if this was appropriate.
At the nation’s first transgender Career Expo, job seekers were encouraged to use their new gender names on resumes.
But Meghan, 42, a transsexual who declined to give her last name because her current employer knows her as Mark, wanted to make sure prospective employers could find her — or him — if they ran a background check.